Downloading & Organizing photos from iPhone

Is there a program I can use - not iPhoto - to download photos from my iPhone and organize them into folders by date? (I've seen suggestions of Image Capture, but I don't know if I can make it organize by date).  Or is there a way to use the automator to sort my photos after downloading them with Image Capture?
I'm using Snow Leopard on a macbook pro.

You can import photos that were captured by your iPhone along with any photos saved from a received email or from a website, which are stored in your iPhone's camera roll.
The iTunes sync process for photos from your computer to your iPhone is a one way transfer process only - from your computer to your iPhone. Photos transferred from your computer to your iPhone are optimized for viewing on your iPhone. If you are able to transfer these photos in the other direction, the original resolution of these photos will be lost.
I believe there is a 3rd party utility that provides for this, but such a utility is not supported by Apple and if this is successful, the original resolution of these photos will be lost.
Why didn't you include all photos stored on your computer's hard drive with your computer's backup before reformatting your computer's hard drive, and why did you have to reformat your MacBook's hard drive? Did you create a backup or update your existing computer's backup for any important data that was stored on your computer's hard drive before reformatting the drive?
The iPhone is not designed nor intended to be a backup storage device, and should not be considered as such.
I don't believe I've ever had to reformat the hard drive with any Mac I've owned.

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